CVE-2005-4442: Openldap

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in OpenLDAP before 2.2.28-r3 on Gentoo Linux allows local users in the portage group to gain privileges via a malicious shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is part of the RUNPATH.

Affected products

• Openldap Openldap: up to and including 2.2.28_r2; version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; …

Published 2005-12-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.